EVERYTHING MOVES by Jean Tinguely, photo by Akbar Simonse Opening today, and surviving for no one knows how long, is the Self-Destructing Art Show, at Flux Factory in Queens, NYC. In 1960, Jean Tinguely, a Dadaist and “metamechanic” artist (and maker in his own right) debuted and destroyed his Homage to New York in the […]
Our friends from the Swimming Cities crew will be unveiling their “floating island” — five handmade boats connected in star formation, nearly 50 feet in diameter, for the first time ever on water (they were on land at the World Maker Faire), tomorrow in Brooklyn. They’ll be serving up oysters and champagne along with music, […]
Woohoo! I’ve been looking forward to this one for a long time. I have painted a few minis in my time, but my eyes are almost always bigger than my stomach when it comes to buying and planning elaborate armies. Thankfully, there’s plenty of eye-candy out and about the web, and in our own archives, to satisfy my long-standing dreams vicariously. Here’s a list of top content that can get you started on your own mad schemes. Happy Friday!
Here’s one for the “limiting your options is the best way to stimulate creative thinking” file. Lego does not make many elements in its metallic silver color, so Flickr user Alex Schranz had very few pieces to work with when designing the fuselage and skin of his minifig-scale B-17 bomber model. I’d say he succeeded admirably.
German maker Christian Aschoff built this excellent looking clone of the QLOCKTWO word clock.
Janet Zweig and Franklyn Berry built this Lipstick Enigma sculpture, which uses 1200 (!) stepper motors to display computer-generated messages on a giant grid of resin lipstick tubes.
Longtime CRAFT and MAKE contributor Annie Buckley has curated an online art exhibit on the venerable HuffPo. On Seeing is a great collection of emerging and established artists from around the globe, all using ordinary, every day items — Popsicle sticks, paper strips, soccer balls, patrol uniforms, grocery bags, vintage clothing, traffic lights — to […]
